Where Light Takes Its Color From The Sea. By James D. Houston. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2008. 8vo. xv, 275pp. Color illust wraps, VG. Cover illustration is a woodcut by Tom Killion, Monterey Bay From Santa Cruz Pogonip. The author taught Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz and in 1973 coauthored with his wife Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar.